Circuit Sparsity
### TL;DR
Circuit Sparsity is a set of open tools developed by OpenAI to connect weight-sparse models and dense baselines through activation bridges. These tools aim to enhance the interpretability and efficiency of transformer models by enforcing sparsity during training, resulting in more compact and interpretable circuits.
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Key Features
- Enforces weight sparsity during training
- Maintains consistent fraction of nonzero elements across matrices
- Achieves approximately 1 in 1000 nonzero weights in the sparsest models
- Enforces mild activation sparsity with about 1 in 4 node activations nonzero
- Provides tools for connecting weight-sparse models and dense baselines through activation bridges
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